TUTORIALS FOR VFX & MOTION GRAPHICS
Free After Effects Tutorials & More Hosted By: Andrew Kramer
Jan 17, 2008 | 27mins.
• Use 3D Max to create growing 3D vines
• Composite Z depth pass in After Effects for DOF
 
TUTORIAL NOTES:
This tutorial uses 3D Studio Max and After Effects. No project files are available. Similar effect in Cinema4D: http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/?p=158 Tutorial for Maya: http://www.jessetoulafilms.com/TutorialPages/AnimatedExtrude.html
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638 Responses to "Growing 3D Vines"
Sam Dark
01/23/2012
That is osom, thanks a lot.
Sean
12/22/2011
With a few hours, I followed the tutorial and i made the vines be strands of numbers! I got the matrix code font and WALLA! I had growing Matrix vines!!!
Ulrich
10/21/2011
That you bring quality videos like this for free blows my mind..
Keep up the good work !
Stallion
09/03/2011
Amazing work Andrew - thank you for sharing such wealth of information which might take anybody ages to figure out. Keep up the good work and hope the way you share knowledge with the world with an open heart you get the same in return from all of your fans :)
yassine
08/31/2011
very very nice thank you .yassine from morrocco
cacklefactory
08/28/2011
TIP: For everyone that had trouble with the vines not attaching to the line properly and just remaining straight, I had the same problem and you just have to remember to set the segments up to 75 and not leave it at one. The vines won't twist and bend if they are only one segment.
juan manuel b
08/23/2011
great job only im juts need to learn more about after effect im juts learning 3d max in totaly going to buy some day someting from you take
AlbiON3d
08/20/2011
Your totorials are very helpful.
This program (3d Max) is a little bit dificult but at the end of the project seems amazing. COOL!
Isaac
08/04/2011
Hi, your tutorials are very good indeed excellent.
Greetings from Latin America to be more specific from Ecuador, well just wanted to say hello and wish you good luck. Follow these tutorials spectacular rise and thanks for sharing with the community of After Effecs
aniket
07/22/2011
I have a request...
can you post a tutorial on how to transfer 2d renders from 3ds max to live video in after effects...i have tried adding a green background while rendering, but it doesnt work so well....

thanks,
Aniket
Aislan
06/02/2011
Hey kramer, i'm brazilian and this turorial is the best. I'm trying to do a effect like the movie 'Butterfly Effect' when the actor move yourself to another time space! My first idea was to use the twitch plugin, but i think i will need other things. Can you say some tips, please. Thank you.
Sharim
06/01/2011
Hello

I have problem when i want to pick patch, and marked the line i get the message "illegal path" please help me ;/
muhtada muhammad
05/20/2011
i will be very much happy to know where i will
get all this latest tutorial and plugging of aftereffect. a very good well don for you and all your crew members.i will be happy to see more of this.thank
Superhero_man
05/19/2011
Ok... Ive followed this Tutorial very thoroughly, but im stuck at where u move from 3Ds MAX to AE, i saved the .png files, but i don't know how to import them into AE as one movie... so without that, i cannot really move on with the tutorial... Plz some help will be helpfull
ferdzo
06/23/2011
Hi!

So this is how it goes...In Ae you click import > import file > (go to the map where your .png sequence is..then click first Z-depth filter sequence just one file-be sure that you have ticked out PNG sequence at the bottom of the import window).. When one .png file is imported, Ae automatically imports whole sequence... repeat whole thing with a main .png file again just like in the tutorial..at the end just drag main .png file to the new composition..
bye!
Cristian
05/10/2011
=D Oh my god.. >.<

Thanks for the tutorial.
Danish
05/06/2011
Hi Andrew Sir,
1st of all u have done great job i watched all of your tutorial .. and every tutorial u made is awesome and creative .. well sir i want to learn 3d max and after effect from u more... therefore i want to be your student if you please dont mind... well i live in pakistan.. and want to cum there to learn 3dmax and AE from u sir.. plz let me know if there is any place for me to learn ..
Thank You
your sincerely
Danish Ahmed..
Nathan Bertram
04/06/2011
I watched your tutorial and found it very useful however i am trying to animate a hamburger in 3D studio max so it looks as if it is mouthing the words to a music video i am doing. I was hoping that you could post a tutorial on how to do this or just simply reply, i tried animating the polygon in auto key but the object changed completely for every key frame and it didn't work, plz reply
Daddy_C
04/05/2011
Master Kramer your knowledge of 3D space is....well its like Yoda and his knowledge of the force. Your a LEGEND!
Thanks for all your time and effort man!
MJ
03/31/2011
When i Click Alt and drag the mouse , doesnt work , i have 3Ds Max 9 , looks just like yours and i cant move around , Please help me =\ !!!

PM Me on youtube.com/iSizzlex please
Anupam Shrivastava
03/27/2011
You just made another Exciting Video Tutorial as you always make. Thanks again bro.
KRYZOR
03/13/2011
Great tutorial! <3
angelstrikes
03/10/2011
please tell me the software in making growing 3D vines... please.. thank you!! more power!!
anonymous
04/20/2011
3Ds Max 2009, is what this tutorial used for the Vine.
angelstrikes
03/10/2011
please let me know d procedure on how to create growing 3D vines... thank u!! more power!
nomadsonic
03/24/2011
3ds Max
adham
02/25/2011
hi kramer ia adham but where to find this texture
Paul
02/20/2011
i give up Tomo
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